''Jago & Litefoot'' is a Big Finish Productions

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based on the long-running British

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series '' Doctor Who''. It stars Christopher Benjamin and

Trevor Baxter Trevor Baxter (18 November 1932 – 16 July 2017) was a British actor and playwright. He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Early years A postal worker's son, Baxter was born in Lewisham, London, England, an ...

Henry Gordon Jago Henry Gordon Jago is a character who appeared in the 1977 '' Doctor Who'' television serial, '' The Talons of Weng-Chiang''. He was played by Christopher Benjamin. He worked so well with Trevor Baxter's character, Professor George Litefoot, ...

and

Professor George Litefoot Professor George Litefoot is a character who appeared in the 1977 '' Doctor Who'' television serial '' The Talons of Weng-Chiang''. He was played by Trevor Baxter. He worked so well with Christopher Benjamin's character, Henry Gordon Jago, th ...

, their characters from the 1977 TV story ''

The Talons of Weng-Chiang ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' is the sixth and final serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 26 February to 2 April 1977. In the seria ...

''. '' The Mahogany Murderers'' was an entry in the

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range of audio plays and effectively acted as a pilot for this series.

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is the script editor. Thirteen series were released between 2010 and 2017, along with a handful of special releases and, in 2021, a fourteenth series adapting episodes originally planned before Baxter's death. Each series consists of a box set of 4 hour-long plays. Between the fourth and fifth series, the duo travelled with the Doctor (

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) for a pair of adventures, '' Voyage to Venus'' and ''Voyage to the New World'', as single-disc releases. Additionally, a pair of Short Trips were released in March & April 2017 called "The Jago & Lightfoot Revival" (featuring the Tenth and

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s); while they also reunited with the

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for '' The Justice of Jalxar, The Beast of Kravenos'' and the Sixth Doctor in ''

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''.

Cast

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Episodes

Series 1 (2010)

Series 1 comprised 4 episodes and was released in 2010. It featured the return of Sgt Quick (previously PC Quick), who appeared in ''

'', and the character of Lisa Bowerman's Ellie Higson, a barmaid acquaintance of the pair who had previously featured in '' The Mahogany Murderers''. The series's main antagonist was the mysterious Dr. Tulp, who was previously also mentioned in ''The Mahogany Murderers''.

Series 2 (2011)

Series 2 comprised 4 episodes and was released in January 2011. The series' main antagonist was the vampiric Gabriel Sanders (

David Collings David Collings (4 June 1940 – 23 March 2020) was an English actor. In an extensive career he appeared in many roles on stage, television, film and radio, as well as various audio books, voiceovers, concert readings and other work. He garnered ...

Series 3 (2011)

Series 3 was released in June 2011, and featured the return of

Louise Jameson Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951) is an English actress with a wide variety of television and theatre credits. Her roles on television have included playing Leela in ''Doctor Who'' (1977–1978), Anne Reynolds in ''The Omega Factor'' (1979), ...

's Leela. The season was described by director Lisa Bowerman as resembling a Victorian version of

Sapphire and Steel ''Sapphire & Steel'' is a British television supernatural sci-fi/fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J ...

. The series' main antagonist was the mysterious Professor Payne, whose "time breaks" were wreaking havoc all over the country.

Series 4 (2012)

Series 4 was released in March 2012, and guest starred

as Leela and

as "Professor Claudius Dark". Its main villains were Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick, who were pursuing Dark.

''The Voyages of Jago & Litefoot'' (2012)

Following the fourth series, these two one-off stories depicted Jago and Litefoot taking a couple of trips in the TARDIS with the Sixth Doctor. The stories concluded with the Doctor apparently returning the two to the Red Tavern before departing to investigate a temporal surge that threw the TARDIS off-course, only for Jago and Litefoot to learn after the Doctor's departure that he has actually left them in 1968 rather than their home time.

Series 5 (2013)

Series 5 was released in March 2013. Following '' Voyage to the New World'', it was set in the 1960s. It also featured return of Magnus Greel and Mr Sin, main villain of ''

'', who were resurrected by the series' main antagonist, Guinevere Godiva.

Series 6 (2013)

Series 6 was released in September 2013 and set back in the 1890s. Its primary antagonist was the Colonel, portrayed by

Geoffrey Whitehead Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at Shakespeare's Globe, St Martin's Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic. Early life Whiteh ...

Series 7 (2014)

Series 7 was released in April 2014. It followed Jago and Litefoot's lives as fugitives from the law.

Series 8 (2014)

Series 9 (2015)

It featured Jago & Litefoot's travel on a cruise. An actor Jamie Newall, who played Aubrey in series 5, played another version of Aubrey in series 8.

Series 10 (2015)

Series 10 was released in 2015, and featured Jago & Litefoot back in London after their cruise. The series' main antagonist was the obsessive Carruthers Summerton.

''Jago & Litefoot & Strax'' (2015)

This was a one-off special featuring the revived series character, Strax, the Sontaran. It features the usual cast and Dan Starkey as Strax, reprising his role from the TV series. It follows series 10 and was released in November 2015.

Series 11 (2016)

Big Finish released an eleventh series of ''Jago & Litefoot'' in April 2016, featuring

Geoffrey Beevers Geoffrey Beevers (born 15 January 1941) is a British actor who has appeared in many different stage and screen roles. Career Theatre Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor (including ...

as the Master.

Series 12 (2016)

Big Finish announced that there would be a twelfth series of ''Jago & Litefoot'', it was released in October 2016.

Series 13 (2017)

Big Finish announced that there would be a thirteenth series of ''Jago & Litefoot'', it was released in April 2017.

Special (2018)

Following Baxter's death in July 2017, Big Finish announced the release of a single episode to close the series, using archived recordings of Baxter's performances to round out the story.

Series 14 (2021)

A fourteenth series was announced in the format of audiobooks adapting episodes originally planned before Baxter's death.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Big Finish Productions – Jago and Litefoot Series One
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